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David Fisher | Open to Contentment, 2025
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Category:Art / Medium - Wood
Start Price:75.00 USD
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1,000.00USDby s*********3+ applicable fees & taxes.
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2025 Jun 14 @ 13:30 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
David Fisher,Greenville, Pennsylvania
Open to Contentment, 2025
Black walnut
5.75 x 4.3 x 6 inches | 14.6 x 11 x 15.24 cm
I am inspired by watching birds. I suppose their contentment comes from an openness to the good, while they accept the things they cannot change, like the weather. They are full with joy in the moment and it seems to flow through their graceful lines. I’ve tried to represent these things through the elements of this piece: The bowl that is never closed, the round fullness of the body, the flow of the lines, the open posture, and the overall expression. And then there’s the egg…
This bird-inspired bowl began as most of my pieces do, with the splitting of a green log. By working from a log, I can choose the best orientation for the piece. In this case, the vertical centerline is a radial plane of the log with the lighter sapwood of the walnut tree at the head of the bird. The horizontal bands of the growth rings create interesting patterns across the surfaces. With various edge tools such as hatchet, gouges, and knives, I carved the general form of the piece, including the hollow of the bowl. After drying, I returned to it to refine the form and the various surface textures. I had been thinking about a piece like this for some time. It was a thrill for me to see it outside of a sketchbook. I’ve loved to make things for as long as I can remember, and I still feel the same sense of excitement and vitality when I’m carving as I did when I was a boy building with sticks or Legos. But now I get to swing an axe.
I live and create right in the same small town in western Pennsylvania where I was born, and where I taught history at our local high school for over thirty years.
My father first taught me about tools and Drew Langsner, Roy Underhill, Jennie Alexander, Wille Sundqvist, Peter Follansbee, Jogge Sundqvist, Robin Wood, and Bengt Lidstrom, to name a few, opened my eyes to the world of working with green wood — logs and branches right from the tree.
In addition to my bowl, spoon and letter carving, I write articles for Fine Woodworking Magazine, teach carving, and share work and techniques through my blog and website.
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